1933 Rolls-Royce 20/25 H.J.Mulliner Two Door Fixed Head Coupe

An extremely stylish and smart car, well-proportioned and good-looking from any angle. Particularly attractively finished in two shades of green, one of them very dark, with harmonising pale green leather, which we think suits the car very nicely, and it seems that many share this view, based upon the number of admiring comments that we have heard. The car is excellent structurally and mechanically, and drives very well, having been well-cared for over the years, as evidenced by invoices on file for maintenance and repair totalling over £50,000 since 1999, which included an engine overhaul, new cylinder head, re-wiring in correct, cotton-covered cabling, stainless steel exhaust system, and a good deal more besides. Very recently, the clutch has been overhauled. The car is fitted with overdrive for relaxed cruising, which really does make a significant difference to the usability of the car. Well-presented, clean, eye-catching and adorned with features such as an impressive array of correct lamps and horns, including twin pillar-mounted spotlights, louvred bonnet and scuttle, an external sun visor, rear-mounted spare wheel with ‘clam shell’ cover, and other stylish touches. Serviced, MoT tested and ready to go. Lovely!

Price £77,500.

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Property & Yachts

In the early 1920s Leo H. P. Meyer (1903/61) alongside Thomas Blacked founded the building firm Blackwell & Meyer, in 1929 he set up his own company “New Ideal Homestead” & during the 1930s he was acknowledged as being the country’s largest private housebuilder.  In 1933 he & his partner P. Shephard built & sold in excess of 4,000 houses in & around London, this led to their company being floated on the stock exchange & to it being renamed as Ideal Building & Land Development.  Leo was an early car owner and in 1929 he was stopped whilst driving in Kelvedon & upon failing to produce his licence was fined 10/-!  It would appear that he only kept GLZ59 for a few years as by 1935 the car was registered with J. A. Ellert a stockbroker – by 1938 it had been sold to Mrs. Gladys Margaret “Mollie” Reynolds.  Mollie & her husband had several properties – Nr 27 Grosvenor Street in London where in 1925 Mollie was the victim of a daring robbery – she was fast asleep in the ground-floor flat wearing, as was her custom, a pearl & diamond necklace worth (in 1925) some £3,000 when a thief broke in and snatched the necklace from her neck!  The Reynolds’ other property was The Towers in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight which, being a keen sailor and lady commodore, she allowed the West Wight Saling Club to use with “no question of payment arising”.  According to local lore being a keen sailor she had the sides of her dragon painted in different colours so to confuse the opposition, her husband Herbert Reynolds is acknowledged as helping to save the Scows in the 1920s with the design of the West Wight Scow which still exist some 100 years later.  In the 1970s GLZ59 was with Wallace F Smith of Holbury Mill in Romsey which was a water-powered corn mill.